[Closed] Wot no "For the Love of Cars" thread?

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for the cheeky edit
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/wot-no-for-the-love-fo- [b]csars[/b]-thread

I thought the transit was nice, but Philip Glenister is a terrible presenter imo, and they'd have done better to focus a lot more on how they restored it rather than the painfully contrived banter between the presenters.
Also, unless I missed it there was no mention of how much the restoration actually cost?

Agreed Ian - they never cost it, wouldn't be economic I'd imagine.

I wonder how Ant gets paid, IMO he is the better presenter of the 2, there's no need to dumb it down to TG standards!

As above, best bit was bending the bit of sheet steel.
Also, odd how there's always 8 weeks (sometimes 10) until the auction. Did they do them all at the same time? Still a good watch.

I'd imagine Ant does them alongside his other work.

You'd expect/hope he's getting decent PR/advertising out of it, he appears successful, odd that he'd have a lot of spare capacity.

Wot no "For the Love of Cars" thread?

Other than the previous seven threads?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:singletrackworld.com+for+the+love+of+cars

Those ones that pre-dated last night's programme?

cynic-al 1, cougar 0.

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Also, odd how there's always 8 weeks (sometimes 10) until the auction. Did they do them all at the same time? Still a good watch.

I think it was a couple of weeks ago that they showed the Saab and the police car in the background of whatever car they were selling at Coys. Looks like they sell them all at the same auction and the whole 'we need to build this car in one night' is just put on for some pointless tension.

Google the auction and you can see they all got sold in the one show. They only do a couple of actions a year.

After the program Ive decided not to sell my Transit, just keep polishing it until its 45 years old. Only 33 years to go.

[quote=richmars ]As above, best bit was bending the bit of sheet steel.
Also, odd how there's always 8 weeks (sometimes 10) until the auction. Did they do them all at the same time? Still a good watch.

If you liked the fab work there then you definitely need to watch project binky on youtube. I'll not spoil the surprise but the front bulkhead is magic.

Since I'm feeling generous
[url= https://www.youtube.com/user/badobsessionmsport ]Project binky linky[/url]

Ant runs his own firm building posh DBR1 replicas and the like. I suspect that a lot of the work you don't see on the show gets jobbed out - the logistics of doing half a dozen cars in one workshop to a tight timescale would be a nightmare.

They're definitely all going into the same auction. Either that or Drew Pritchard is a bloody avid classic car auction goer 😀

Yes, the auction is at the Motor Sport Show early Jan each year.

I don't see what the point is. They're just cars after all, and you can't get a bike into one without taking it apart.

Now if it was all vans... 🙂

Is this the one with the bathtub?

Oh wait sorry wrong car programme.

It's really not as good as it used to be is it? Last series was definitley funnier, it's just formulaic now!

Agreed Ian - they never cost it, wouldn't be economic I'd imagine.

IIRC the DBS was auctioned and the 'profit' was given to the owner rather than the total. I suspect the profitability probably rests on how much he's paid for doing them, if he was a hobyist in a shed then it's possible to make a profit, subbing it out or even paying himself definitely wouldn't.

They should bin the whole "auction it as a good deed" angle as the cases are increasingly less worthy IMO.

I thought that but then they were all filmed before the series started so they could have tweeked the order to prevent that. So I assumed that maybe this weeks was maybe a bit too recent/personal and maybe the dad asked for it to be cut to avoid distressing the kids? Otherwise it was just 'mechanic buys uneconomically restore-able transit and gets £9.5k for it'.

Mk1 transit with the bull nose aren't that rare either. Not as common as petrol versions, but rarity was probably in having the original engine (they alluded to that but tried to imply that it was "the only one" that shape). But they're hugely in demand as you can't re-engine the petrol version as it used a V4 to save space.

So I assumed that maybe this weeks was maybe a bit too recent/personal and maybe the dad asked for it to be cut to avoid distressing the kids? Otherwise it was just 'mechanic buys uneconomically restore-able transit and gets £9.5k for it'.

Was there more to the story then? Was portrayed as a single dad - feel worse if it was more complicated than it appeared.
It has been a bit annoying that a couple of them have just been "bought this car but don't have time to start/finish project" then get 10s of ks worth of restoration thrown at it and it's sold at a loss (paid by the TV co) with the "owner" getting the "profits".

I dunno, it was just an assumption based on there really wasn't any back story this week so I assumed maybe there was (to justify picking that transit, they're really not as uncommon as they made out) but they maybe glossed over it.

Do people pay more at auction because Ant is involved? Or indeed a TV production? (As seen in TV's 'For the love of cars'....)

The rarity of the MK1 bullnose was indeed in the fact that it was the original engine that was in the van, or as the yanks call it a 'matching numbers' vehicle.

As for the actual cost of the rebuild it has been estimated by those in the know that IF was done and charged for at proper rates that it would have cost in excess of £15k for the Transit.

I now a lot of the owners that were featured in the show and have Known Pete Lee for over 20 years so the cost above isnt just a figure plucked from the sky.

I really enjoy the program but echo some of the above .... In the first series the format was slightly different in that the cars were restored to a deadline and then all auctioned at a later date. But this series is falsely edited to give the appearance that the individual auction is the deadline! All the cars are at the same auction so if it were real they must be working on all of them at the same time !

Yes I'd agree I'd like to see more detail on the actual restoration and how issues are overcome ..

Enjoyable series but without tweaking the format to make it more interesting and less predictable I think it's interest will wain quickly !

Definitely needs to be more about the restoration. Phil is totally redundant in my eyes and should be got rid of.

Also wonder about the quality of some of the work. Just before the auction of the Transit started there was a close up of the offside headlight. Top dead centre had two paint runs on the painted surround and looking again there appears to be another at 9 o'clock.

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Don't think it's my eyes deceiving me but wonder why Ant puts his reputation on the line when clearly he/his company do very little of the work.

So what's the deal then...I make it that that's the 3rd car this series that that auction buyer has bought. Just seems odd.

I noticed that, Asif seems to be buying up all of Ant's resto jobs!

mitsumonkey - Member
I noticed that, Asif seems to be buying up all of Ant's resto jobs!

More money than sense 😀

Was that Ant's house they were at with the drawings on the wall and model cars?

Looks like his business is going well

I liked the program but tonight's has taken the shine off. Ant's guy's didn't appear to really do much-it was the VW specialist that did all the work-although to be fair Ant did mention 'the team' deserved it with the auction conclusion.

And sorry but there is no way a Cal look Beetle with crap headlamp covers and a front beam that was too wide is worth what it supposedly fetched at auction.